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Notes From ICA’s Forum on Institutional Responsibility

Museums say they make no money leaning heavily on individual donors Then WHY when communities protest harmful work can they not apologize? What is the motivation behind such benevolence?

I feel some kind of way about the word literacy In my view visual literacy can be embodied as lived experience Who then are visually illiterate? Why are they illiterate when they have access to every kind of knowledge? Because through institutional sanction of supremacy myths – say… Museums – they can choose to remain so

We cannot make change from the inside without protest Protest and direct action is how we have any chance at institutional change (at Museums) If we have any civil rights it is because people fought and continue to fight for them